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    Tiling to a skirting board

    yes where it asnt been done before by the kitchen fitter, i am very lucky in that the majority of people i work for are all very proffesional and they actually think about the next man on the job. another reason i always leave space to fit the grout apart from it having some where to go, is that...
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    garage refurb

    the reason the ceiling is at different levels is because i done about 5 bathroom ceilings in one month and there were some off cuts that were left and were to small for any more ceilings(less than 1.7m) so to utilise the waste instead of just putting them in the skip or bin i made a feature of...
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    garage refurb

    any rough idea what you are looking for in your bathroom, might have some completed job pics or some one else may have some completed work pics.
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    Tiling to a skirting board

    i personally dont like to see silicon around kitchen worktops, mainly because its hard to find a coloured silicon that will go with the worktops. i do offer both options to the customer though and leave the executive decision to them at the end of the day. i think that seeing silicon around the...
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    Tiling to a skirting board

    i like to leave the same gap around by the skirting board, usually about 2mm as you want some where for the grout to grip and adhere to. bit like grouting kitchens on top of the work top. a lot of folk sit the tiles directly onto the worktop allowing the grout no where to stick to, thus falling...
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    fast set grout...

    like said you should only be grouting 1/2, 1 m2 at a time anyway. half an hour is plentyfull for a competent person. if you think that time scale is bad you should try and use flexible grouts on floors etc, you get about 5mins to sponge off, maybe not even that. often enough its grout and sponge...
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    garage refurb

    they are dry verge tile.
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    garage refurb

    they are called dry verge sytsem, available from all good leading builders merchants.
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    garage refurb

    they were purchased off ebay, loads of them for sale on there. its a 1350mm unit. 850mm sink unit. the price was £279 and that included all cabinets,sink, back to wall toilet with enclosed cistern plus soft close toilet seat. same as this one...
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    garage refurb

    yes my house is to the right hand side, front of house faces a road so the garage is round the back.
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    garage refurb

    moved into my new house 12 months ago and decided to change a few things. the garage was just to small and impractable. i will also include other things i have done in the house so far. all work is my own work. hard to find time when you work full time. approx cost to do garage was £2500. few...
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    Downstairs WC and family bathroom refurb pictures.

    looks like the work is done to a high standard, not to sure on the position of the shower pipe where it comes out of the wall. just looks out of place. plus i am not to keen on wall wounted taps sticking into the showering area, i assume there is a reason why you havent put any water fittings...
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    Poor workmanship on tiling floor? (pics attached)

    but costs the op a lot more money and as a tiler in these recession time if it takes you a couple of hours more to allow for unevenness then so be it, like i said who would be a fool loose say a £600/£800 for a couple of extra hours.
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    Poor workmanship on tiling floor? (pics attached)

    im sick of hearing about the floor being level, if we were all as fussy to work just on totally level surfaces we would all be out of work and not earn a single penny. i once tiled a indoor car showroom floor 200m2 and i had to use 25x 20kg of self levelling to get the floor some where near...
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    Quarry Stone/Tiles - Flooring

    they will want treated with some kind of impregnator first to protect them,(staining etc) then when down you can use a colour enhancer the more coats you apply the deeper colour it will give them. if you want them polished then that is a different ball game, maybe contact the local monumental...
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    Poor workmanship on tiling floor? (pics attached)

    the price etc should be sorted prehand which i assume they did.so if the tiler said that will be £16 a m2 thats fair enough. But if the tiler said that will be £250 a day im sure she would have said on your bike matey. and it probably would have taken him 2 1/2 days. i will re phrase (looks like...
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    Poor workmanship on tiling floor? (pics attached)

    i think you got a £380 job done to be honest, at £16 m2 you werent expecting a proffesional tiler to entertain the job.just one little thing the tiles have a profiled edge which makes the tiles very hard to lay even on the flattest of surface. i have seen floors proffesionaly screed and they...
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    Removing bathroom tiles - problem encountered!

    you could dot and dab some plaster board over the area but will lose quite a bit of room space, probably about 10mm. another idea would be to use a little angle grinder with a diamond blade and grind the crap of the walls, will make one hell of a mess though.
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    Advice Please?

    as he used any trim around the window? it doesnt look like it, unless you stated you didnt want any around the window.
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    did I use the right trowel?

    i would say a 5mm trowel for the floor isnt big enough, i use mainly a 8mm or a 10mm trowel in most cases on uneven floors.
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